OSCE observers said about the forced mobilization in Ukraine

Residents controlled by Kiev village markivka in the Luhansk region told the OSCE observers about the forcible recruitment of men into the ranks of the military power of Ukraine, said in the daily report of the special monitoring mission (SMM) of the organization in the East of Ukraine.The observers talked With four local residents who had told them that the Ukrainian Military tied 10 civilians, took them to a Markov recruiting station and registered as mobilized, RIA "news" referring to the report on SMM.in conversation With the women observers stressed that the process was the lack of police or the authorized local administration. In a local hospital Observers found 10 men aged 20 to 40 years, who had expected premobilization physical." All said they were stopped on the street or in the workplace soldiers ", ? it is noted in the report. The head of the recruiting office later said to the representatives of the SMM that the proper instructions on how to drive men to mobilize the police and the authorities of the Ukrainian soldiers gave it, in Accordance With the Directive of the headquarters of appeal in Severodonetsk. Remember, in June Ukraine began the sixth wave of mobilization. Only the Ukrainian authorities intend in 2015 to call for service in the army of 100-150 thousand People. March 25, the head Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on increasing the size of the army up to 250 thousand People. The head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak has not excluded if necessary the seventh wave of mobilization. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of July, the victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine began more than 6, 8 thousand People, at least 17 thousand have Received damage of health. With fifteen February, the parties to the conflict in the Donbass declared a truce in Minsk after almost 16 hours of negotiations. However, despite the control system of the ceasefire, for the last time period shelling in Eastern Ukraine again became frequent.